OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Thirty years of IJWF	49
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach	48
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	32
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	31
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems	29
Observations of wildfire spread dynamics in southern Australian grasslands	23
Vegetation phenology as a key driver for fire occurrence in the UK and comparable humid temperate regions	23
Book Review	22
Fire – the influence of an extreme habitat disturbance on a threatened population of Desmoulin’s whorl snail: a case study from Poland	22
Corrigendum to: Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	22
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (	21
IJWF Outstanding Associate Editor Award 2021: Marc-André Parisien	20
A dynamic and evidence-based approach to mapping burn potential	20
Table of Contents	19
Table of Contents	18
Recent change of burned area associated with summer heat extremes over Iberia	18
Post-wildfire contamination of soils and sediments by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in north-central British Columbia, Canada	18
A response to comments of Cruz et al. on: ‘Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread'	17
Table of Contents	15
Corrigendum to: Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype	15
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	15
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	15
A framework for defining fire danger to support fire management operations in Australia†	15
Mapping the ethical landscape of wildland fire management: setting an agendum for research and deliberation on the applied ethics of wildland fire	14
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	14

Prescribed burning on private land: reflections on recent law reform in Australia and California	14
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires	14
Interactions of non-intersecting oblique lines of fire burning in surface fuels in a combustion wind tunnel with and without wind	14
Linking crown fire likelihood with post-fire spectral variability in Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems	14
Drivers of international fire management personnel deployed to the United States	14
Table of Contents	13
MODIS-based smoke detection shows that daily smoke cover dampens fire severity in initial burns but not reburns in complex terrain	13
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	12
Improved logistic models of crown fire probability in Canadian conifer forests	12
‘Any prediction is better than none’? A study of the perceptions of fire behaviour analysis users in Australia	12
Likelihood of implementing fuel reduction treatments on nonindustrial private forest lands	12
Variability in wildland fuel patches following high-severity fire and post-fire treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada	12
Effect of initial generating eddy height on formation and flame geometry of fire whirl	12
Spot ignition of a wildland fire and its transition to propagation	11
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	11
The importance of small fires for wildfire hazard in urbanised landscapes of the northeastern US	11
Fire propensity in Amazon savannas and rainforest and effects under future climate change	11
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour	11
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	11
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	11
FireFormer: an efficient Transformer to identify forest fire from surveillance cameras	10
The relationship between wind speed and satellite measurements of fire radiative power	10
Mapping smouldering fire potential in boreal peatlands and assessing interactions with the wildland–human interface in Alberta, Canada	10
Collective action for managing wildfire risk across boundaries in forest and range landscapes: lessons from case studies in the western United States	10
Quantifying burned area of wildfires in the western United States from polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite active-fire detections	10
Corrigendum to: Extending methods for assessing fuel hazard in temperate Australia to enhance data quality and consistency	10
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	10
Impacts of changing fire regimes on hollow-bearing trees in south-eastern Australia	10
An analysis of fatalities from forest fires in China, 1951–2018	10
Traditional use of field burning in Ireland: history, culture and contemporary practice in the uplands	10
Signs of resilience in resprouting	10
PeatFire: an agent-based model to simulate fire ignition and spreading in a tropical peatland ecosystem	9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed	9
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	9
Operationalising homeowner wildfire risk mitigation in fire-prone areas	9
Fire whirls induced by a line fire on a windward slope: a laboratory-scale study	9
Tree height is more important than bark thickness, leaf habit or habitat preference to survive fire in the cerrado of south-east Brazil	9
The sum of small parts: changing landscape fire regimes across multiple small landholdings in north-western Australia with collaborative fire management	9
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	9
Before the fire: predicting burn severity and potential post-fire debris-flow hazards to conservation populations of the Colorado River Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii pleuriticus)	9
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	8
Post-fire clumping of seedlings of Cape Proteaceae species: ecological, evolutionary and conservation implications	8
Predicting terrain-induced wind turbulence for smokejumper parachute operations	8
Delayed effect of thermal treatment on breaking physical seed dormancy: intrapopulation variation and implications for soil seed banks	8
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	8
Modelling initial attack success on forest fires suppressed by air attack in the province of Ontario, Canada	8
More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire	8
Future regional increases in simultaneous large Western USA wildfires	8
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	8

Grasshopper abundance and offtake increase after prescribed fire in semi-arid grassland	8
Factors influencing the development of violent pyroconvection. Part II: fire geometry and intensity	8
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression	7
Study on the ground fraction of air tankers	7
An exploratory analysis of forest fine fuel consumption and accumulation using forest inventory data and fire history	7
Physics-based modelling for mapping firebrand flux and heat load on structures in the wildland–urban interface	7
Objective identification of thunderstorm gust fronts in numerical weather prediction models for fire weather forecasting	7
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV7	7
Long-term post-fire succession of reptiles in an urban remnant in south-western Australia	7
Extension of the Balbi fire spread model to include the field scale conditions of shrubland fires	7
Contemporary (1984–2020) fire history metrics for the conterminous United States and ecoregional differences by land ownership	7
Moisture content variation of ground vegetation fuels in boreal mesic and sub-xeric mineral soil forests in Finland	7
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands	7
Deep peat fire persistently smouldering for weeks: a laboratory demonstration	7
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	7
Effect of tree wood density on energy release and charcoal reflectance under constant heat exposure	7
Australian Fire Danger Rating System Research Prototype: a climatology†	7
Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 1	6
Perception of wildfire behaviour potential among Swedish incident commanders, and their fire suppression tactics revealed through tabletop exercises	6
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia	6
Using PODs to integrate fire and fuels planning	6
Factors influencing ember accumulation near a building	6
Simulation-based high-resolution fire danger mapping using deep learning	6
Slope effect on junction fire with two non-symmetric fire fronts	6
On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread	6
An approach to integrated data management for three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour model evaluation	6
Table of Contents	6
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	6
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants	6
Bridging knowledge gaps on the role of spatial planning in wildfire risk reduction: insights from Portugal	6
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation	6
Smoke emissions from the extreme wildfire events in central Portugal in October 2017	6
Transitioning operational satellite grassland curing from MODIS to VIIRS	6
Predicting burn severity for integration with post-fire debris-flow hazard assessment: a case study from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA	6
Fighting wildfires: predicting initial attack success across Victoria, Australia	6
The distributed strategy for asynchronous observations in data-driven wildland fire spread prediction	6
Bark charcoal reflectance may have the potential to estimate the heat delivered to tree boles by wildland fires	6
Fire and habitat variables explain reptile community abundance and richness in subtropical open eucalypt forests	6
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm	6
Field and full-scale laboratory testing of prototype wildland fire shelters	6
Expanding our understanding of nitrogen dynamics after fire: how severe fire and aridity reduce ecosystem nitrogen retention	6